The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-04-14
p0WDKRLH RE1O1CKp
s.sasss ,tfs Anarchist Candidates tst Chicago
Citt O1ices Were Laid OH Coij.

becAuSO tho Anarcklsc Capd10Atet tor ChJcaG9
city once. We're Laid OF Cold.
At 4 meeting 81 knights Of Labor. repre-;
sentip9 every district in Pennsylvania. held
1T Harrisburg TO consider the bills per.
tanning to labor now pending In the leeisla.
ture, the general master workman press,
ed himself we'll pleased with the result
OF the Chicago election. A public meeting
was held in the house OF Representatives..
Mr.. Powderly presided and made speech.
in which no asserted:
Labor had right to be represented here
by men to look after its interests in the lea.
islature, He referred 10 tie Ia6nopoiistie
tpfpc fAt!dns being represented in leQisla.
live halls. and said. it was time Tho
labor men OF : Pennsylvania emu.
lated the example OF their brethren in New
Jersey and Insist upon the examination Of
l!l labor bills before they were passed.
I'VE are charged with being anarchists and
tavoring measures that tend to anarchy.
AZ chief OF our organization can say that
anarchy finds no abiding place in our
midst; but monopolists want to make
people beltere the contrary, No matter
MWhat errors we have commit ted in the past.
we have always aimed at doing right. We
have pursued line of policy and found out
things that are right and wrong, but We have
always kept clear ofthe one thing that brings
odium on our country anarchy" He re-
joiced, therefore, is the defeat OF the anar.
chist candidates in Chicago. was glad to
see that the workinemen Of that city were
good enough to throw the lie back into tho
iaces to those who posed as their friends
and representa- lives; No sooner did the
anarchist ticket go before the people than
it's supporters said. We will carry the ticket
under the flag on whose luce not one star.
s!!stens, not one stripe is to be found, and
the teaching OF such men as Powderly and
Griffiths will have no weight with u.s. But
they found election day that anarchy was
showed under as it was never showed un,
der before and I say amen to that every
time.e
BURST or PATRIOTISM.
!, did not know but what in the dccora-
zion OF this hall you might forget to
place the American flag on the walls
Thursday, that it might be for
gotten. brought this with me this morn
ing, here Mr.. Powdcrly exhibited flag
amid tremendous applause], and !
brought it here so that il it were CHARGED
that we were not Americans, We could show
that we were. I don't care where | was
born; don t care where the rest OF you
were born; but We swear by that tlug and
no Other Let them tt-m6trfuw m5rn:
ing after these out.bursts OF ap.
Plause charge us with being any
thing but free-born American citizens, and
these manifestations which You have given
expression to will be the refutation of that
lie which will ring down the century in
condemnation Of the red flag. Now broth.
ers, we are here and we will stand or fall
ny the sentiments 1have given utterance to.
we are here as Americans to watch
American legislation in the interests Of
the American people and in our Amer.
lean way, and also to say that those
men who assembled a hundred years
ago inPhiladelphia and gave out the Dec,
laration OF independence to the world were
right when they declared that all men wers
created Tree and equal and endowed with
certain inalienable rights, and that we
believe they told the truth and that it
still continues to be the truth instead OF
living lie, lis some Of these men would
have people believe. We can do this with.
out being anarchists, without being
partisans and without being tied to
the charcoal wheels OF either the old demo.
cratic or republican party: It was now an
lripossibility for a mechanic to earn enough
by his own labor to support his mily. He
had to call In the help Of his wife and chill
dren: He wanted the barriers between
greater than fifty cents day The chill.
aren should be taken off the coal breaker
and kept at school: The public could not
exist on red flag foundation ofignorance,
vice and crime
Industrial schools should be established
and hands and brains educated at the
same time. The legislature a few years
ago would not have paid the slightest at
tcnrion to a labor organization, but NOT
the Knights OF labor could defeat any cara
didate, and SO Il word to the wise in this legis.
q W. If 1,oc, Rain T1,o1>
wrong for the man that was boycotted,
and SO was the blacklisting wrong for the
man that made the blacklist He did not
believe in either system. He believed In
arbitration, and he would make arbitra:
tion compulsory.